September 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

backward compatibility broken !
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi, I need to re-typeset an *old* book (from January 2004). Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore with ConTeXt ver: 2007.08.09 13:04 MKII: Runaway argument? liche Laufbahn ! Paragraph ended before \next was complete. <to be read again> \par l.12 ? The phrase causing the trouble is: erste beruf"|liche Laufbahn Is "| not working anymore? Hopefully there is a successor that works the same way – and please (!) doesn't change the line-/page-breaks??? Steffen

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[OT] slide shows on www
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

For slide-shows enthusiasts: Sample: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html Homepage: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Mojca

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Acrobat don't accept compiled documents
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hello Hans, Sorry, but the problem is wider. Nothing using fonts compiles into valid pdf now. It seems like the problem arose after upgrading to newest 09-10 version of cont-tfm. -- Best, Vyatcheslav

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figures using xetex
by Andrea Valle 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi to all, while finishing this: http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photo/photoBook.pdf I was experimenting with fonts. Using xetex, I simply added : \definetypeface[Optima][rm][Xserif][Optima] \setupbodyfont[Optima] Fonts are ok (Optima is used). I saw that many tmp .rli files are generated. Apart form the increasing compiling time, the first problem is that I had to run several times texexec --xtx in order to generate them all. Is it normal? Most important it behaves strangely with layers using pdfs figures. Color is not applied, or typically they are not shown. What am I missing? Many thanks Best -a- PS: no news with the old xetex question concerning fonts in figure? It seems that both the problem are related to the use of pdfs to be inserted in the ConTeXT file. -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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Page numbers at empty pages
by Gerhard Kugler 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi, in case of double-sided pagination there are empty pages. My publisher does'nt want numbers at that pages. How can I set this? Greetings Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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how to start all chapters on a left page
by Liesbeth van der Plas 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Dear all, Does anyone know how to start a chapter on a left page in a doublesided paper? Every chapter consists of two pages which I always want to start at the left side. Whatever I try, \chapter always starts with a right page. Liesbeth van der Plas -- liesbethvanderplas(a)gmail.com www.wiskunde-interactief.nl

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Re: [NTG-context] verb-c.tex
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hmm! I can not find the problem. Here is a short example, showing the error. Hope that someone can give me a hint! \usemodule[verb-c] \starttext \startC "*\0" \stopC \stoptext and the errormessage: ! Extra \else. \doCtypefiveA ...mment \getpretties {#1}{#2}\else \ifinCsingle \getprettydat... \doCtypefourfour ...pretty \expandafter #2\fi \fi \fi \fi \fi <argument> "*\ 0"\relax \flushrestofverbatimline \processverbatimline #1->#1 \dodoverbatimline ...ax \flushrestofverbatimline } \endverbatimline \global \... \presetlastverbatimline ...r \doflushverbatimline \else \kern \zeropoint \do... ... l.16 \stopC ?

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how to reuse float numbers?
by William S. 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

Hello, I am wondering if the float numbers can be reused for floats that are longer than a page. I use floats that contain program segments (source code) for a project report for my university studies. The guidelines specify that captions for code which is longer than one page or crosses page boundaries should be reprinted and the title changed to (continued). example: Program Segment 1.1: Hello World #include <stdio.h> main() { ...on next page... Program Segment 1.1: (continued) printf("hello world!\n"); } Can someone help me do this in ConTeXt? I think I can do the splitting of the code myself if needed, but I don't know how to reuse the float number. Currently this is how I define the float: \definetyping[Program][blank=halfline] \definefloat[ProgramSegment][ProgramSegments] \setupcaption[ProgramSegment][location=top,align=right,headstyle=bold,style=bold,inbetween={}] \setuplabeltext[en][ProgramSegment=Program Segment ] And I use it like this: \placeProgramSegment[here]{Hello World} { \startProgram main() { printf("hello world!\n"); } \stopProgram } Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, William.

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currentheadnumber / doif.. problem
by Peter Schorsch 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

Hi, I tried to get the full present heading-number. If I am using currentnumber I am getting back only the last part of the heading-number. So I tried do implement a function like this: \def\presentheadnumber% {\doifelse{\headnumber[section]}{}% {\headnumber[chapter]}% {\headnumber[section]}% } but always the else-part is executed. I also tried to use doifemptyelse, doifnumber etc.. but as soon i am using headnumber[...] only the else-part will be executed. Can anyone help me with this problem? Or am I going a complete wrong way? Thanks

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visualization problem
by Andrea Valle 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

Dear all, I've created this. http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photoBook.pdf (it's 5 mB) The cover and the separators in the pages are generated stretching on layers the same image (a pdf generated by Metapost) % cover \setlayer [mybg] [x=0\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight] {\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=1\paperheight,width=1\paperwidth]} % red horizontal separator \setlayer [mybg2] [x=0\paperwidth, y=.45\paperheight] {\color[darkred]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=.1\paperheight,width=\paperwidth]} % gray vertical separator \setlayer [mybg3] [x=.9\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight] {\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando] [height=\paperheight,width=.05\paperwidth]} In Preview.app on macosx it's all displayed as expected (this is a png snapshot of the horizontal separator: http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/hbar.png ). But Acrobat displays the separators (the cover is ok) as a sequence of filled boxes. Can it depends on some resolutions setting? Or what? -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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